From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: tab and space
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:26:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84fzpcihgy.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b5117g$5uc$1@reader.nmix.net
"cyrus" <cyrus@cyrus.com> writes:
> When I open an emacs created file in notepad I see more spaces for tab and
> regular space. How can I set these to be the same as what you'd see in
> notepad? I have looked at every variable and can't find out.
By default, Emacs assumes that tab characters are eight columns
wide. You can frob the variable tab-width to change this. So by
default, a followed by TAB followed by b is shown as follows:
a b
And if you set tab-width to 4, the same three characters are shown
like this:
a b
--
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-24 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-16 4:41 tab and space cyrus
2003-03-16 19:14 ` Benjamin Rutt
2003-03-24 21:26 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
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